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  1. 01-23-2007, 12:42 AM #1
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    A buffless day to help promote cycling...



    Not sure if this should be just in the Australian area but i'll post it here...

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6287085.stm
    So, anyone want to ride in the buff? Anyone ever biked buff?

    Just an interesting idea for the day.You'll never think of buff headgear in the same way again won't you...

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  2. 01-23-2007, 04:12 AM #2
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    I'm having a hard time imagining what the bike seat would be doing while I'm peddaling along nekkid. Other than that I LOVE the idea!!

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  3. 01-23-2007, 04:19 AM #3
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    HA HA HA!!!

    I've never tried it, but DH has: we have an 8x10 photo of DH on his mountain bike, wearing only shoes and a helmet. He rode around his college campus, and a friend took a couple of pictures. Campus Security chased him around on foot, yelling "Sir! Sir! Wait! This is unacceptable behavior!"

    I love the expressions when guests see the photo for the first time!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Haudlady View Post
    HA HA HA!!!

    I've never tried it, but DH has: we have an 8x10 photo of DH on his mountain bike, wearing only shoes and a helmet. He rode around his college campus, and a friend took a couple of pictures. Campus Security chased him around on foot, yelling "Sir! Sir! Wait! This is unacceptable behavior!"


    I love the expressions when guests see the photo for the first time!
    I'm going to venture a guess and say your DH didn't go to college in the US? "Sir! Sir! Wait! This is unacceptable behavior!" is way more polite than most of the campus police officers I know.

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  5. 01-23-2007, 04:32 AM #5
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    "Sir! Sir!" ???

    Reminds me of what I've been told is the Norwegian military's regulation for how to act when about to fall off a bike: "Shout 3 times "I'm falling! and fall in a controlled manner towards your left." No kidding.

    Apart from that I can hardly imagine a sport or activity I'd rather not do naked than riding a bicycle
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  6. 01-23-2007, 05:12 AM #6
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    Yeah, sitting on the bike seat naked kinda gross me out. Wasn't that a Seinfeld episode? One of his girlfriend's likes to walk around naked and it skeeved him out, then she goes at sits on his new bike and he freaks out...
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  7. 01-23-2007, 07:11 AM #7
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    I have not taken part, but each year on the Summer Solstice there is a naked ride around the Fremont neighborhood here in Seattle. Some folks do opt for body paint...
    "Sharing the road means getting along, not getting ahead" - 1994 Washington State Driver's Guide

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  8. 01-23-2007, 07:58 AM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Queen View Post
    I'm having a hard time imagining what the bike seat would be doing while I'm peddaling along nekkid. Other than that I LOVE the idea!!
    Queen, if you had a Brooks, it would simply and elegantly be holding you up!


    Spokewench, In Seattle, on the fremont day parade, the police look the other way.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mimitabby View Post
    Queen, if you had a Brooks, it would simply and elegantly be holding you up!


    Spokewench, In Seattle, on the fremont day parade, the police look the other way.

    The hubby says the laws around here is worded that its only illegal to go naked if it offends someone and the person who is offended has to make a formal complaint....
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  10. 01-23-2007, 08:36 AM #10
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    My tri club does the Holiday Speedo Run every year... running through the streets of LA in the dead of winter wearing nothing but Santa hats and, well, their Speedos.
    I'm not quite sure if they're trying to promote anything worthwhile... or they're just exhibitionists.
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    Not to mention that I think the Seattle PD is a bit leery of bothering bicyclists after the brouhaha of the Critical Mass...

    I did notice that the date for the Buff Day was not mentioned in the article, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mimitabby View Post
    Queen, if you had a Brooks, it would simply and elegantly be holding you up!...
    I think it's more likely that it would be simply and painfully embedded and in need of surgical removal.

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  13. 01-23-2007, 10:20 AM #13
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    The Nekkid Ride thing's been going on for years (but it's less outrageous in Europe and California). I remember reading about "Critical Tits" rides - everybody going topless - and that seemed a little more comfortable
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  14. 01-23-2007, 11:09 AM #14
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    I might consider riding in A buff, but never in THE buff ... not even back when I WAS buff. Oddly enough, that was back when I was nude modelling for an art school, but modelling for a class is one thing and riding in public something else entirely ... for me.
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